Exctation vs. Inhibition • Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotrasmitter • GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter • Glu and GABA rarely coexist in one neuron Two Puzzles: • Glu is expressed everywhere (what is Glu?) • GABA can be synthesized from Glu in a single step (via GAD)

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